FDATE (2) Multi-purpose date manipulation / format utility for batch files.

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[updated 2004-11-09]

Fdate is a powerful utility for performing date formatting and date arithmetic in DOS batch files. Includes a variety of means for placing output into environment variables which can be then be manipulated in numerous ways in a batch file. Detailed and brief help documentation included; multiple help screens.

• accept user input from the keyboard.
• retrieve today's date in a variety of formats.
• place today's date into a file name.
• reformat dates Output formats include common American and European formats, or you can "roll your own" by manipulating environment variables. Month and weekday names can be produced in several languages (English, French, German, Spanish, Danish).
• calculate when certain holidays occur in a given year.
• do date arithmetic.
• determine the date N days before/after a given date.
• compare two dates to determine which is earlier.
• compare two dates to determine how many days apart they are.
• determine if a year is a leap year.
• determine whether a year is evenly divisible by some number
• determine what day of the week a date falls on.
• run certain software only on certain days of the week.
• retrieve the date/time from the date/timestamp of a file .
• do simple integer arithmetic (add, subtract, modulus).
• calculate the time a piece of software takes to run.
• convert a calendar date to/from a "business julian" date.
• extract a substring from an environment variable.
• right, left, or center justify a string.

Author: Stephen Ferg (2003).

2003-07-04: v16a. Last version developmemt has ended.

Get more info at the Fdate page.